My laptop uses the Intel 845GL chipset, and I'm unable to get it to run X in anything other than 256-color mode. Searching the archives suggests that I'm SOL because of a video BIOS limitation (I only get 1MB of shared system RAM on my motherboard and I can't change it). I've tried the "VideoRAM 16384" update in XF86Conf, but it does not work. When I try it, the logfile tells me that there's an "unsupported function". And an old post from Mike Harris at Red Hat (on the psyche-list) indicates that Windows systems hack around the BIOS to avoid the limitation. You can guess, of course, that there's no trouble when I boot to Windows XP. It will run in high-color mode...in fact, it needs to be there. Anyone have any newer information...and any luck...getting an Intel 845 system out of 8-bit color mode on FC1? Thanks! Erik
